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All posts by Mike Rogers

Below are all of Mike Rogers's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.

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Full technical details of Freeview
Wednesday 5 November 2014 9:39AM
Birmingham

Hi Sutton Coldfield

I am experiencing poor subtitling on a few Freeview channels. The main culprits seem to be on your COM 4 MUX, eg Drama, ITV3, ITV3+1.

The problem I am getting is very poor synchronising of the subtitles. At times they are up to 10 seconds early, then they will stop, re-appear in synch and then gradually start appearing early again. On Monday evening I recorded George Gently on Ch 20(Drama) and Grantchester (ITV1). These two programmes overlapped between 8.00pm to 10.00pm. The George Gently subtitles were terrible whereas Grantchester's were perfect.

Have you any idea what may be causing this problem? I have had the problem for some time now.

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M
Full technical details of Freeview
Thursday 6 November 2014 4:41PM
Birmingham

Re above.

My TV aerial is on the roof. Sorry I omitted that yesterday.

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M
Full technical details of Freeview
Wednesday 12 November 2014 9:51AM
Birmingham

Has nobody got any comments on the poor subtitling I mentioned above a week ago?

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M
Full technical details of Freeview
Wednesday 12 November 2014 3:16PM
Birmingham

Well done Steven, a reply to your query within one hour.

It appears nobody has any comments about the rubbish subtitles I'm getting in the West Midlands on certain channels.

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M
Full technical details of Freeview
Wednesday 12 November 2014 4:51PM
Birmingham

Thanks for that Mike.

Perhaps you could advise me who might actually be interested in the provision of subtitles on TV programmes. The TV channels say it's not their problem as subtitles are added by others.

I assume from what you say the individual transmitters have no interest in viewers problems listed in this website. If I Google "Contact Sutton Coldfield Transmitter" this website is top of the page. How do I contact Sutton Coldfield Transmitter, or is the answer,you can't?

I have posed the question to Ofcom but I don't hold out much hope they will do anything either.

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M
Full technical details of Freeview
Wednesday 3 December 2014 3:53PM
Birmingham

During "Doctors" today on BBC1 at lunchtime we had a screen pop up three times.

The pop up consisted of a central red spot at the top with an "R" against. All sorts of numbers & words around the four edges. Each time I got the camera ready it disappeared. We are on the Sutton Coldfield transmitter.

Has anyone any idea what caused this?

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